A better patient experience drives superior financial performance
The core principle of Clairvia Care Value Management – what’s good for the patient is good for the hospital – creates the foundation for a solution that can transform the efficiency, effectiveness and profitability of your organization.
- Real-time, evidence based allocation of caregiver resources, focused on achieving desired care outcomes, improves the patient’s in-hospital experience, leads to more rapid recoveries and helps maximize reimbursements.
- Proactive scheduling, based on a desired progress plan for each patient – and updated as each patient’s condition changes – ensures optimal operational efficiency
- Improved patient experiences and better recovery rates give physicians the evidence they need to increase their referrals
August 6th, 2010
Clairvia customer and highly respected national leader, Kathleen D. Sanford, RN, MA, DBA, FACHE., was interviewed by HFMA in July in an article titled “Staffing Issues: A Major Concern for Nursing.” Sanford, senior vice president and CNO of Catholic Health Initiatives raises very important questions such as truly understanding the cost of nursing services, and how CHI is addressing the business case for quality.
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June 7th, 2010
Part 1: Length of Stay
The other day I heard that even with increased taxes and program cutbacks, within a few years the rising costs of medical care would overcome those efforts to keep the US financially healthy. While we might not have “signed up” to solve the country’s financial problems, you can bet that those who did sign up to solve them will be putting huge pressure on the health care industry to control costs, while maintaining care quality.
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March 18th, 2010
Like most people, I’ve been following the Healthcare Reform debate. A year ago, when it all began, we seemed to be about two problems — access and costs. But all the action to date has been around access – with the insurance industry in the cross hairs. Once something happens there, however, the attention will surely shift to costs, which I think will make access look like a much easier problem.
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March 1st, 2010
The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been instructed to “provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in healthcare spending.” As HHS seeks ways to get more for less, most of us believe value based purchasing (VBP) could be a transformational agent of change. In the article Healthcare reformers are focusing on value; are you?, published in the August, 2009 issue of Healthcare Financial Management, authors Hal Andrew and Gunter Wessels describe the proposed VBP programs, the challenges they pose to hospital executives, and some proactive steps leaders can take to maintain high performance on outcomes measures while controlling costs.
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